Africa

The eighth edition of the Nollywood Week festival starts on Thursday 6 May and will take place completely online, a symbol of a cultural sector that is being undermined by the pandemic. The festival had to be canceled last year due to Covid-19. For this first virtual edition, four previews and about thirty films are shown, and many changes as well, a bit like Nigerian film that continues to adapt.…

In line with the International Meals Disaster Community, which brings collectively the fundamental companies and NGOs preventing starvation, the variety of hungry folks on this planet has elevated from 135 to 155 million by 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic and its financial penalties clearly have this toll is rising, however the fundamental explanation for starvation and malnutrition in Africa and on this…

In Guinea-Bissau, tourism is small, though fluent. And but, within the dynamics of growth, it could be one among the options for this small nation of two million inhabitants, the place the dearth of labor for youth arises acutely. From our correspondent in Bissau,"Attending to know your nation higher by means of tourism and…

It has grow to be essentially the most controversial challenge in Mauritius immediately. The Authority for Web Actions, ICTA, desires to introduce a system for intercepting exchanges on social networks, the aim is to censor messages which might be dangerous to society and people. However the potential abuse of such management intrigues all social actors.…

The military claims to have deployed "exterior the state to hurt" the insurgency after heavy combating within the Nokou space, north of Mao, in Kanem province. In an announcement, the insurgent group condemns Barkhane's involvement in what they name "Chadian-Chadian" offers. One week in the past, Truth claimed to have shot down an MI fight helicopter from the Chadian military that had come to bomb its…

The continued violence within the east is extra vital for the political class. On Wednesday, Might 5, the previous presidents of the Nationwide Meeting and the Senate met to talk about the difficulty. The decision has been made to finish the violence. And whereas the siege of President Félix Tshisekedi's state of affairs in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in an try and cease violence in armed teams…

A gathering occurred on Wednesday, Could 5, between FPI GOR's officers and PDCI. The 2 events will work collectively to arrange Laurent Gbagbo's return to the Ivory Coast. Return whose date has not but been introduced. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre PintoBe certain that that this return has a nationwide dimension and…

Within the Central African Republic, Simplice Mathieu Sarandji was elected President of the Nationwide Meeting this Wednesday, Could 5, with 69 votes out of 87. He'll thus, and for the following 5 years, turn into the second character of the state within the minutes. Resulting from the safety context, solely 90 deputies out of a whole of 140 could possibly be elected at the tip of the legislative vote,…

In a video revealed on Wednesday, Could 5 on social networks, the French journalist Olivier Dubois claims to be the hostage of the jihadists from the Assist Group for Islam and Muslims. How did he find yourself there? Who's his catcher? How did the kidnapping happen? RFI appears to be like again on the final moments earlier than the kidnapping.…

Within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a siege is imminent within the battered provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. This siege goals to place an finish to the massacres which have plagued these populations for greater than 20 years. And to attain this, President Tshisekedi determined to switch the powers of the civilian authorities to the navy authorities for a month, together with in the sector of…